People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.